Personal profile

Research

Ali Riza Taskale is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. Prior to joining Roskilde University, he held positions at Near East University, Northern Cyprus, and Hacettepe University, Turkey. His research interests include theories of (neo)liberalism, contemporary forms of governance and rule, speculative finance/speculative fiction, and alternative futures. His research has been published in Distinktion, Thesis Eleven, Rethinking Marxism, Northern Lights, New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory, Third Text, Theory, Culture & Society and Journal for Cultural Research, along with a number of book chapters in edited volumes. His book, Post-Politics in Context, is published by Routledge (2016). He is currently working on a project that explores the logical and structural relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance.

Education/Academic qualification

Geography, PhD (viva passed with no corrections) , Neoliberal and Militarised Post-Politics, University of Sheffield

20092013

Award Date: 5 Jul 2013

Sociology, MA (with Distinction), Social Theory Facing Nihilism, Lancaster University

20072008

Award Date: 1 Nov 2008

Sociology, MSc , The Turkish Army and the Legitimation Processes, Hacettepe University

20032006

Award Date: 24 Jun 2006

External positions

Associate Professor of Political Science, Near East University

20212022

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Near East University

20172021

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hacettepe University

20142017

Keywords

  • Literature, Art, Music, Aestheticism
  • Speculative fiction
  • Arts and politics
  • Economics, Politics
  • Speculative finance
  • Financial capitalism

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